The Hindu Business Line : Friday, December 02, 2005

Air Arabia makes travel less costlier
DID you know that the glossy ticket of an international airline cost $8 and you are paying for that too? Things like this, and many other hidden and unhidden riders, make the air travel costlier for passengers, according to Mr Rohit ... More

SpiceJet cuts fuel surcharge by 50%
WITH the price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) dropping in the domestic market by more than Rs 4,000 per kilolitre during the current month compared to the previous month, the low-cost airline, SpiceJet has announced a 50 per cent reduction in ... More

Canadian flying schools woo aspiring Indian pilots
The advantage of undergoing the training in Canada is that the course can be compressed to nine months as against three years it normally takes in Indian schools. More

SHIPPING

Sical to raise funds for iron ore terminal
SOUTH India Corporation (Agencies) Ltd (Sical) will go in for a combination of measures - a rights issue, a preferential allotment of equity shares and a preferential allotment of optionally convertible redeemable preference shares - to ... More

Call for national policy on dredging
CONSIDERING the future growth of dredging operations in the country, there is an increasing demand for a national policy on dredging in order to attract more Indian companies into the field. It is pointed out that dredging operations along the ... More

Cyclone warning at Chennai port
EXCEPT for an oil tanker working at Bharathi Dock 1, all other commercial ships have been moved out of the Chennai port to anchorage following a cyclone over the Bay of Bengal. The local weather department has hoisted Signal V at the port, and ... More

New intra-Asia container service
KOLKATA: STX Pan Ocean is to launch a new intra-Asia container service from the middle of this month to cater to the burgeoning demand for container services between India and the Far East, according to shipping industry sources. The new ... More

INTERVIEW

Freight rates to be lower by 5 pc in 2006: SCI chief
"The rates will almost remain the same as they were in 2005 or may get 5 per cent lower''. More

RAILWAYS

`Howrah Station is veritably the heartbeat of Kolkata'
RELEASING a commemorative volume titled Vibrant Edifice, celebrating 100 years of the Howrah Station building (at old complex) here on Thursday, the Governor of West Bengal, Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi, said if it's Gateway of India for ... More

Alert us to breaches, Rlys tells public
WITH weathermen forecasting yet another cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal, the South Central Railway (SCR), perhaps for the first time, has started a media campaign, appealing to the public to tip the authorities off on chinks in the ... More

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